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May Day Rising!

Published: May 1, 2012

When I was a kid, May 1st meant giving and receiving May Day baskets from my friends. Today it just means I have to pay my rent. But for the world, May 1st signifies a beautiful fight – one that has for over a century stood for the rights of workers and an end to […]

Sounding the Alarm at the HERvotes Press Conference

Published: March 1, 2012

A coalition of over 50 women’s organizations came together this morning to hold a press conference on the launching of a nationwide effort to mobilize women voters around the issues most affecting women in the upcoming election. HERvotes, working toward Health, Economic Security and Rights, are calling out to women to use their voices and […]

Repeal Hyde Art Project Day of Action – Friday February 10!

Published: February 2, 2012

In 2009 while working as a phone counselor at an abortion fund in Philadelphia, I was amazed, heartbroken, and consumed by the stories that I heard on the phone: amazed that people in modern America do not have access to safe, legal, abortion care, heartbroken that people with federally and state-subsidized insurance had to sell […]

One Step Closer: Contraceptive Coverage Rule Approved Under ACA

Published: January 20, 2012

Has the price of birth control ever kept you from buying it? The number one prescription drug for women ages 18-44 years, the average women pays $50 a month for birth control. This is an obvious barrier to access, particularly for low-income women and students. Reproductive rights are a fundamental aspect of women’s economic equality, […]

39 Years Later, We’re Still Fighting for Abortion Access

Published: January 13, 2012

The 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion is fast approaching, so on January 23rd let’s sit back and let the joy of abortion access just wash over us. Wait, scratch that. What’s been going on in this country since the last Roe anniversary? 2011 saw an unprecedented number of abortion restrictions […]

Protecting Unemployment Benefits

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Welcome to the seventh #HERvotes blog carnival on the need to protect women and employment during these tough economic times, with a focus on the importance of extending Unemployment Insurance (UI) before the December 31st deadline. It is critical that Congress acts before the end of this calendar year […]

Looking for Jobs that Don’t Exist Is Hard Work

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with the National Women’s Law Center. The deadline to extend federal unemployment benefits (UI) is rapidly approaching, but it is still not clear when Congress will get around to addressing this extremely critical issue. Meanwhile, some Members of Congress have indicated that they would vote against a bill […]

Unemployment, Congress, and People Like Me

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with the National Women’s Law Center. $297.00 That was the size of my weekly unemployment insurance benefit from the District of Columbia. Two hundred ninety-seven dollars and zero cents. I signed up to start receiving UI benefits shortly after being laid off on Monday, November 15, 2010, appx. […]

Good Education. Good Experience. Still Unemployed.

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Moms Rising. I am an RN who specializes in utilization review. I had worked for the same company since 1999. Unfortunately, as the dawn of the economic crisis broke, that company was swallowed up by another company, and then that was sold to another. After years of losing […]

Tough Job Market for Recent College Grads

Published: December 8, 2011

Recent college graduates continue to face a tough job market, two and a half years out from the so-called end of the Great Recession in June 2009. College tuition has grown faster than inflation or family income. As the cost of a four-year degree has risen, so has college debt, but default on those loans […]